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1. Feature

   The 2008 RFT Music Award Winners: The Results Are In!

   Published: June 11, 2008

   Like every year, the 2008 RFT Music Award winners represent a diverse cross-section of the old and the new, the familiar and the upstart. Genial jazz chanteuse Erin Bode (who's...

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   Ah, the Sweet Nectar

   Wine is served!

   By Alison Sieloff

   Published: June 11, 2008

   You like to surround yourself with beautiful things. You hang stunning artwork throughout your home, you wear gorgeous clothes, and you own the prettiest puppy. So it only...

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   Feel the Burn

   This author is hot

   By Mark Fischer

   Published: June 11, 2008

   In David Sedaris' story "A Plague of Tics," the satirist relates his childhood struggles with Tourette syndrome and his compulsion to lick light switches. These tics, he...

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   Come to the Table

   It's time to talk about dinner

   By Alison Sieloff

   Published: June 11, 2008

   Americans are not only eating more these days (as evidenced by our expanding waistlines), but we're also talking about what we eat more often — and finding out that we...

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   Flop of a Lifetime

   The Producers is quite a production

   By Paul Friswold

   Published: June 11, 2008

   It's ribald, rowdy, riddled with sexual innuendo — and it stars a singing-and-dancing Adolf Elizabeth Hitler in the worst musical comedy in the entirety of Broadway's...

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   Bigger and Badder

   Here there be monsters

   By Paul Friswold

   Published: June 11, 2008

   Sure, a monster truck is pricey, gaudy and provides essentially the same transportation capabilities as a smaller truck — but those Manolo-whatevers ain't doing anything...

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   Love Love Loving Love

   By Paul Friswold

   Published: June 11, 2008

   Recent big-screen romantic comedies have flopped (here's looking at you, Matthew McConaughey), but that doesn't mean there's no audience for romance — the genre just...

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   A Lot of Fun

   Chesterfield Arts knows how to throw a party

   By Alison Sieloff

   Published: June 11, 2008

   When it comes to art fairs, you're the expert. You know when to arrive to maximize your browsing, and you can always suss out the best deals. But while you've been perfecting...

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   Turn It Up

   New Line rocks out

   By Christian Schaeffer

   Published: June 11, 2008

   In Nick Hornby's novel High Fidelity, Rob is a kind of every-schlub who views each life crisis -- the encroachment of middle age, his floundering record store, a problematic...

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    Songwriters Sound Off

    By Mark Fischer

    Published: June 11, 2008

    Aspiring music publishers and A&R scouts looking for the next Lennon and McCartney would be wise to hit Collinsville, Illinois, today for the Southern Illinois Songwriters...

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    Bingo Turns 300

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: June 11, 2008

    People like round numbers. They’re easy to remember, they look impressive on paper, they imply significance; yes sir, nice, round numbers are pleasing. That’s why the...

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    Endless Love

    By Jeanette Kozlowski

    Published: June 11, 2008

    It's more than fitting that people in this so-where-did-you-go-to-high-school-obsessed city would want to turn back time and resurrect the granddaddy of all dances — the...

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    Soul Sacrifice

    Spirits, swords, reaping — just watch it

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: June 11, 2008

    As with most anime, Tite Kubo's Bleach seems impenetrable to the neophyte. Ichigo is a high schooler who has absorbed the powers of a Soul Reaper from Rukia; these powers come...

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    Family Values

    They cost more than you think

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: June 11, 2008

    The four Gibson sisters — Esther, Ida, Cora and Aaronetta — all live within walking distance of each other. Esther's the oldest, and her intellectual husband...

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    Hey, Mr. DJ!

    Parenting hits the stage

    By Brooke Foster

    Published: June 11, 2008

    The life of a DJ is pretty sweet. Free CDs arrive en masse each day. The hottest nightclubs invite you out to spin. Yep, life is one big music-fueled party — or is it?...

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    Miles to Go

    Aussies bomb Maplewood

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: June 11, 2008

    Normally if you were interested in checking out the Australian graffiti scene, you’d have to make the long journey to Australia — preferably by boat (because...

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    Sitting Outside Is for the Birds

    Won’t you join them?

    By Alison Sieloff

    Published: June 11, 2008

    Alfred Hitchcock had a way of scaring the pants off folks. Still does. For proof, just watch how many people glare up at the sky suspiciously after tonight’s screening of...

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    Very Superstitious

    Today’s your day!

    By Alison Sieloff

    Published: June 11, 2008

    You’re not gonna lie — you’re a little freaked out by today’s date. But in a good way. You think Friday the thirteenth is creepy, but you want to embrace...

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    Turn It Up!

    It's time to get loud

    Published: June 11, 2008

    Featuring sets by the Earthworms (pictured), Nato Caliph, Todd Kessler and Last Almanac, this launch party for the interactive music community site www.loudmouthstl.com is free...

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    Say Grace

    You need somebody to love

    Published: June 11, 2008

    The rock icon Grace Slick comes to town and brings her art with her (that's her Cheshire cat pictured). And you can meet the musician/artist and take a piece of her work home! ...